Investing in China No Easy Task - Literally

Jan. 19, 2011 - PRLog -- As China President Hu Jintao visits President Obama and the rest of the US,

most of the attention will be focused -- in our view, wrongly -- on the dollar / yuan exchange rate,

as well as more important matters like the global availability of high-tech vital rare earth metals,

of which China controls more than 95% of the world's export trade --

a figure likely to remain more of less constant for the next five to ten years at least.

Underlying the currency concern, of course, is the issue of JOBS -- which the US has failed to produce, despite a so-called / self-styled / alleged "recovery",

but which are, at least for the moment, more than plentiful in China at ALL income levels.

Given this, it's not very likely President Obama or most other corporate / government officials with whom Hu is likely to meet

will bring up what might be called "the other side" of the ever-growing and more complex US / China economic relationship:

the difficulty US and other investors have in bringing money INTO China, where, of course, they create even more jobs.

So in our ever-contrarian spirit here at EconomyWatch,

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